Imagine this scenario:
You’re driving down Main Street. You’re totally aware of your surroundings and you’d like to think your doing a good job driving.
Suddenly, that grey Lincoln with the veteran license plates starts veering out of its lane into yours. Thinking fast you slam on the brakes to let it cut in front of you without so much as a signal light.
Shocked you look up to see an old, fossil of a man, with glasses thicker then your windshield, barely able to reach the steering wheel, gliding on past at 10 miles an hour
Obviously this is no problem. It’s perfectly acceptable to force able bodied teenagers to wait until their 17 to drive by themselves, even then with more restrictions. Senior citizens who are over the age of 80 and can’t see, hear, or barely move, should definitely be able to have more driving priviledges then teenagers.
A kid used to be able to go down and get their full license the day they turned 16, and start driving right away. Now, you have to take a written test, and be with a parent for a year, then you can take your road test and only have one friend in your car for another 2 years.
This is completely fine. Who needs to take all their friends for lunch? It much easier to exclude people and only have one friend.
And it definitely a lot safer to have kids ducked in the seats without seatbelts hiding from the police.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Secret life of the American teenager.
For centuries, parents have been obsessing over what their teenager daughters are doing when unsupervised. In Dr. Leonard Sax’s article “Inside the Dangerously Empty Lives of Teenage Girls” Sax covers what he believes as the way teenage girls act today. In this article most of Dr. Sax’s opinions were biased. This article response covers the anxiety in teenage girls today, rising sexual activity, and regulating your child’s time on a computer and how most of these issues he discusses are not true, or blown out of proportion. Some of these topics have been proven true but most are American statistics or examples.
The first issue in Dr. Sax’s article is the anxiety levels of teenage girls. This is true to some degree, as girls generally have more things to worry about then young boys. Dr. Sax states that when you “sit down and talk to a girl, she will tell you that she’s waking up at 2 am upset about the pizza that she ate for dinner”. Girls also have a lot more pressure put on them in school and teams, since they tend to be more hard working and focused then a teenage boy. One of the things that wasn’t correct in this article was that Sax claims that 36% of girls “self mutilate” (cutting, burning, etc) but the statistics also said that this survey came from Yale university. Sax tries to manipulate the American statistics into a Canadian article.
The second issue that was mostly false was the rising sexual activity in teenage girls. Dr. Sax claims that girls who are 12-13 provide sexual favors to 17-18 yr old boys. This may be true to some extent but the part about girls “cornering boys” and begging to perform oral sex on them is highly untrue. Also Sax states that he got that information from a letter from a student in California. Again, Sax tries to include this information in a Canadian article. In this article he also discusses how teenage girls “regard sex as a commodity that girls provide to boys”. In many ways this can be true and this warped thinking leads to girls having troubles with anxiety.
The last issue with this article was how Sax states that if you want to keep your teenage girl safe, limit their time on computers or cell phones by “no more then 30 minutes on school nights.” And “monitoring software to know what your daughters doing online.” These ideas are a complete invasion of privacy and it doesn’t matter what a parent does or says, if a child wants to do something, they will, they just get better at lying. This statement is also very sexist because Sax doesn’t mention anything about not letting teenage boys be on the computer, and generally boys spend a lot more time playing video games or even looking at pornography.
Dr. Sax’s article may cover some true points in the Canadian society, but the majority of it is highly false. It seems a little unfair to have American statistics and manipulate them into a Canadian article in which Canadian families and parents read and now will stress about what their children might be doing.
The first issue in Dr. Sax’s article is the anxiety levels of teenage girls. This is true to some degree, as girls generally have more things to worry about then young boys. Dr. Sax states that when you “sit down and talk to a girl, she will tell you that she’s waking up at 2 am upset about the pizza that she ate for dinner”. Girls also have a lot more pressure put on them in school and teams, since they tend to be more hard working and focused then a teenage boy. One of the things that wasn’t correct in this article was that Sax claims that 36% of girls “self mutilate” (cutting, burning, etc) but the statistics also said that this survey came from Yale university. Sax tries to manipulate the American statistics into a Canadian article.
The second issue that was mostly false was the rising sexual activity in teenage girls. Dr. Sax claims that girls who are 12-13 provide sexual favors to 17-18 yr old boys. This may be true to some extent but the part about girls “cornering boys” and begging to perform oral sex on them is highly untrue. Also Sax states that he got that information from a letter from a student in California. Again, Sax tries to include this information in a Canadian article. In this article he also discusses how teenage girls “regard sex as a commodity that girls provide to boys”. In many ways this can be true and this warped thinking leads to girls having troubles with anxiety.
The last issue with this article was how Sax states that if you want to keep your teenage girl safe, limit their time on computers or cell phones by “no more then 30 minutes on school nights.” And “monitoring software to know what your daughters doing online.” These ideas are a complete invasion of privacy and it doesn’t matter what a parent does or says, if a child wants to do something, they will, they just get better at lying. This statement is also very sexist because Sax doesn’t mention anything about not letting teenage boys be on the computer, and generally boys spend a lot more time playing video games or even looking at pornography.
Dr. Sax’s article may cover some true points in the Canadian society, but the majority of it is highly false. It seems a little unfair to have American statistics and manipulate them into a Canadian article in which Canadian families and parents read and now will stress about what their children might be doing.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
that republican bitch
Who is Ann Coulter?
some consider her a brilliant debater and political figure, while others only know her as the racist speaker that she is.
This blonde republican seems to live in a world all her own, and likes to share her twisted views on society with anyone who will listen. Coulter has her own opinions and isnt afraid to tell it like it is. Whether its Countries or races, if she doesnt like it, she'll tell you. When is the line crossed for Freedom of speech? AFter someone is invited to speak in your country and all she does is insult you and your culture?
some consider her a brilliant debater and political figure, while others only know her as the racist speaker that she is.
This blonde republican seems to live in a world all her own, and likes to share her twisted views on society with anyone who will listen. Coulter has her own opinions and isnt afraid to tell it like it is. Whether its Countries or races, if she doesnt like it, she'll tell you. When is the line crossed for Freedom of speech? AFter someone is invited to speak in your country and all she does is insult you and your culture?
cliche
Slamming the door, I walk outside to wait for my mother to drive me to school. "You're not going out like THAT, are you?" she lectures. I ignore her and get in the car. "I'm going to be late." I shout. "How many times do I have to tell you: While you live under my roof, you'll live by my rules, and there's no way your going to school with that piece of shrapnel in your lip!" she yells. I roll my eyes, "Whatever mom. I’m pretty sure I’m old enough to decide how I should dress," I say sarcastically. "You can't always tell me what to do! I’m 16, that makes me practically an adult. You need to stop treating me like a baby!" I bravely add.
Gritting her teeth she mutters, "I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like an adult." We drive in silence for a while. "Well, don't think I’m letting you get out of this car until you take that atrocity out." she says calmly. "WHY!" I holler. "Because I’m your mother, and I said so." She states matter of factly. I’m really in the doghouse now.
"Well Amanda's parents let her do whatever she wants!" I attempt to argue.
"Oh, and if Amanda goes and jumps off a bridge, are you going to jump off too?"
As kids, we really have no comeback for that. Frustrated I turn and look out the window, giving my mother the cold shoulder. Looking at the hole that’s slowly getting bigger in the toe of my boot, I’m not sure if I should bring it up or not. It comes up like word vomit, “You said you’d take me to buy new shoes today…” I mutter.
“What, do you think I'm made of money?” She answers, “Back in
Gritting her teeth she mutters, "I'll treat you like an adult when you start acting like an adult." We drive in silence for a while. "Well, don't think I’m letting you get out of this car until you take that atrocity out." she says calmly. "WHY!" I holler. "Because I’m your mother, and I said so." She states matter of factly. I’m really in the doghouse now.
"Well Amanda's parents let her do whatever she wants!" I attempt to argue.
"Oh, and if Amanda goes and jumps off a bridge, are you going to jump off too?"
As kids, we really have no comeback for that. Frustrated I turn and look out the window, giving my mother the cold shoulder. Looking at the hole that’s slowly getting bigger in the toe of my boot, I’m not sure if I should bring it up or not. It comes up like word vomit, “You said you’d take me to buy new shoes today…” I mutter.
“What, do you think I'm made of money?” She answers, “Back in
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